His grandfather was a Quran memorizer, as was his father. For the rarity of those who memorized the Quran in the Tamathith tribe, his father gained great fame, but he was poor and owned no money, but rather his livelihood depended on the charity of the benevolent and the charitable. As for the nickname (Warshin), it comes from the bull, the ugly, the patient. This nickname is one of the titles of horsemanship among them, and the bull's slaughter is a symbol of courage among them as well. Among the things they eat is the meat of the elephant. When one of them hunts an elephant, his wife stands in the middle of the camp and shouts, saying, "My husband, the bull, son of the bull, has hunted an elephant! Come and take your share of its meat." So they forget their hunger and sing songs in praise of that bull that was slaughtered for its meat. Among their staple foods are millet and beans. They have a plant resembling rice that grows in the wilderness without anyone planting it. Next to the Tamathith tribe is a tribe of the Arabs called (Badihla). There is a relationship of marriage and kinship between them and the Tamathith. Next to them is (Kalkah), a lake from which they fish. They leave the fish until it rots and its worms multiply, then they pound it in mortars. They make it into cakes like dried fish cakes, then they cook it with dried okra (Wika). This type is called (Mandaji). The Tamathith loved this food, young and old. It is said that there is a mountain in the region of Madraman and the mountains of Kordofan that is filled with the cooked Mandaji or the trap. And among the Tamathith is a woman named Umm Nasim, who was a wise woman among the Tamathith. They used to go to her for spells and to take amulets that the people of Sudan use for love, to fulfill needs, and to silence the mouths of snakes and venomous creatures.